Rivka’s Red Cross XMRV e-Mail & Video Campaign Scores a Win!

Like a bullfighter 'playfully' flourishing red posters and a sharp message, ME/CFS patient Rivka (remember her "One Woman Protest" at Red Cross & NIH Headquarters in September?) has gained attention in Washington once more. On Dec 3, just four days after Rivka's Protecting the Nation’s Blood Supply. NOT! video and patient email campaign launched, the American Red Cross announced its decision to ban ME/CFS patient blood donations. At the least, the campaign may have been the cherry on top of a series of events that spelled media attention.

BELOW, see the immediate Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage of the Red Cross action (also read the comments & note hundreds of 'thumbs up'); the next-morning coverage on finance/business news site Bloomberg.com; and Rivka's press release with a link to the Red Cross announcement.

I called the Red Cross media office to ask when this policy was put in place. I was told that the woman who wrote the new policy has "left early today" (how surprising!), but I was told it was some time in October. (But then they forgot to tell the world about this ban until today?)

Yes, this press release is the first time most of the public will be hearing about this ground-breaking ban.

Rivka has riveted us all!
She and her family are my nomination for ME/CFS Family of the Year!
Kudos to Keith Baker, one of the advocates extraordinare, who also was instrumental in this coup!
Be proud, fellow patients, the CDC-sey, cheesy, world is coming to an end...
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